Thinking Stuff's Automated Trading Machine
The 30-Second Explanation
This is automated trading software. What that means is, you tell ATM when it should be buying and selling. You tell it how much money to risk. You click the start button. ATM then does exactly what you told it. Meanwhile, you go and do whatever you want.
That's the main functionality. Supporting that is backtesting, where you can experiment with different trading ideas; alerting, so you know when stuff is happening; and charts, so you can see what's going on.
Everything is done with clicks of the mouse. If you know how to use a mouse, you can get this software to do automated trading for you, in the way that you want it done.
What Does This Mean?
A whole new world just opened up to you. Imagine software which which makes you money, following the rules you have given it, trading without fear nor greed, while you are sleeping, or drinking beers on the beach, or working at your day job.
Moreover, imagine that this software was very easy to use, required no special computer knowledge, could be set up using simple mouse clicks, but yet all the trading rules were distinctly yours.
It might sound too good to be true, but that was exactly the goal we had in mind.
Why Automated Trading Software?
Why wouldn't you? In general, automated trading software does these good things:
- It removes the emotional side to trading. Book after book has told you and me that emotions (namely fear and greed) are the biggest hurdle for traders, and the reason why most traders fail. Software doesn't become over-confident after a big win. And it can still pull the trigger after a big loss.
- It adds 100% discipline. Book after book has told you and me that lack of discipline is the other reason why most traders fail.
- Passive Income Generator. Kick it off and go do something else. Even work.
- Take care of your family. Okay, you know how to trade. You're quite good at it. But if something happened to you, you'd want to ensure your family is still being looked after, right? Set up your automated-trading software using your specialised knowledge, then demonstrate how to use the On/Off switch.
- Everything is automatic. It downloads prices for future backtests, it calculates entries, stops, exits, the amount of money to risk, whether or not this trade should be taken in light of the past X trades, it stores the details of trades, the amount won/lost, and more, and continues to do all of this while you're sleeping, at the beach, or in a different country.
- It removes the boring administrative side of trading - the recording of trades for your own purposes and for tax purposes. Now everything's stored for you, and all you have to do is use the Search and Print buttons.
What's The Catch?
It's all sounding a bit too good to be true, doesn't it. If it was this easy, then everyone would be doing it, right?
The catch is that you still need to know a profitable way to trade. A flawed plan, automated, is still flawed.
That's why half of this website is devoted to helping you find profitable trading rules. Click here to see how we can help. The trading rules will be based on technical analysis, so you will need at least a basic understanding of that before using ATM.
More Information
The links below point you to the detailed information about ATM.
If you instead prefer to see it in action, jump straight to the video tutorials.
Questions?
Head to the forums.
If you have to include private information for us to be able to answer your question, then contact us directly.
Get Started
ATM is freeware. So, no reason to wait (other than reading the documentation, right? :-)
Available Trading Rules
These are the "official" indicators, as provided with ATM out-of-the-box. v3 also gives you the ability to create your own custom indicators, making the possibilities endless.
Aroon
- Aroon Up
- Aroon Down
- Aroon Oscillator
Balance Of Power
- Balance Of Power
- Average Balance Of Power
Bar Range
- High to Low Range
- Average High to Low Range
- Minimum High to Low Range
- Maximum High to Low Range
- [OHLC] Plus Average High to Low Range
- [OHLC] Plus Maximum High to Low Range
- Open to Close Range
- Average Open to Close Range
- Minimum Open to Close Range
- Maximum Open to Close Range
- Close Position in Bar Range
- Average Close Position in Bar Range
Bar Swings
- Bar Swing Count
- Current Bar Swing Low
- Previous Bar Swing Low
- Bar Swing Low Before That
- Current Bar Swing High
- Previous Bar Swing High
- Bar Swing High Before That
- Bar Swing Current Pattern
- Bar Swing Previous Pattern
Bar Values
- Open
- High
- Low
- Close
- Volume
- Open Bid
- High Bid
- Low Bid
- Close Bid
- Open Ask
- High Ask
- Low Ask
- Close Ask
Bollinger Bands
- Lower Bollinger Line
- Middle Bollinger Line
- Upper Bollinger Line
- Bollinger Bandwidth
- Average Bollinger Bandwidth
- Bollinger %b
- Average Bollinger %b
- Price where %b would equal X
Camarilla Pivot Points
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 1st Resistance
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 2nd Resistance
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 3rd Resistance
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 4th Resistance
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 1st Support
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 2nd Support
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 3rd Support
- Camarilla Pivot Points - 4th Support
Candlesticks A-G
- Abandoned Baby
- Advance Block
- Belt-hold
- Breakaway
- Closing Marubozu
- Concealing Baby Swallow
- Counterattack
- Dark Cloud Cover
- Doji
- Doji Star
- Dragonfly Doji
- Engulfing Pattern
- Evening Doji Star
- Evening Star
- Gravestone Doji
Candlesticks H-L
- Hammer
- Hanging Man
- Harami Cross
- Harami
- High-Wave Candle
- Hikkake
- Homing Pigeon
- Identical Three Crows
- In-Neck Pattern
- Inverted Hammer
- Kicking
- Kicking - bull/bear determined by the longer marubozu
- Ladder Bottom
- Long Legged Doji
- Long Line Candle
Candlesticks M-S
- Marubozu
- Mat Hold
- Matching Low
- Modified Hikkake
- Morning Doji Star
- Morning Star
- On-Neck Pattern
- Piercing Pattern
- Rickshaw Man
- Rising/Falling Three Methods
- Separating Lines
- Shooting Star
- Short Line Candle
- Spinning Top
- Stalled Pattern
- Stick Sandwich
Candlesticks T-Z
- Takuri (Dragonfly Doji with very long lower shadow)
- Tasuki Gap
- Three Advancing White Soldiers
- Three Black Crows
- Three Inside Up/Down
- Three Line Strike
- Three Outside Up/Down
- Three Stars In The South
- Thrusting Pattern
- Tristar Pattern
- Two Crows
- Unique 3 River
- Up Down Gap Side-By-Side White Lines
- Upside Downside Gap 3 Methods
- Upside Gap 2 Crows
Chaikin Accumulation Distribution
- Chaikin A/D Line
- Chaikin A/D Oscillator
Chandelier Stops
- Long Chandelier Stop
- Better Long Chandelier Stop
- Short Chandelier Stop
- Better Short Chandelier Stop
Commodity Channel Index
- Commodity Channel Index
- Average Commodity Channel Index
Dates and Times
- Seconds part of the bar's start date (0-59)
- Minutes part of the bar's start date (0-59)
- Hours part of the bar's start date (0-23)
- Day of Week of the bar's start date (0=Sun...6=Sat)
- Day of Month of the bar's start date (1-31)
- Day of Year of the bar's start date (1-366)
- Month part of the bar's start date (1-12)
- Year part of the bar's start date (e.g. 2014)
DeMark's Pivot Points
- DeMark's Pivot Points - 1st Resistance
- DeMark's Pivot Points - 1st Support
Detrended Price Oscillator
- Detrended Price Oscillator
- Average of Detrended Price Oscillator
Directional Movement Index
- +DI
- +DM
- -DI
- -DM
- DX
- ADX
- ADX Rating
Elder-Ray
- Elder-Ray Bull Power
- Elder-Ray Bear Power
- Elder-Ray Oscillator
Fibonacci Levels (using Min/Max)
- Fibonacci Level (using Min/Max)
Floor Pivot Points
- Floor Pivot Point
- Floor Pivot Points - 1st Resistance
- Floor Pivot Points - 2nd Resistance
- Floor Pivot Points - 3rd Resistance
- Floor Pivot Points - 1st Support
- Floor Pivot Points - 2nd Support
- Floor Pivot Points - 3rd Support
Heikin Ashi
- Heikin Ashi Open
- Heikin Ashi High
- Heikin Ashi Low
- Heikin Ashi Close
Hilbert Transform
- HT - Dominant Cycle Period
- HT - Dominant Cycle Phase
- HT - Phasor Components - Phase
- HT - Phasor Components - Quadrature
- HT - Sine Wave - Sine
- HT - Sine Wave - Lead Sine
- HT - Instantaneous Trendline
- HT - Trend vs Cycle Mode
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
- Tenkan-sen Line (Conversion Line) - Current Bar
- Kijun-sen Line (Basic Line) - Current Bar
- Senkou Span A (Leading Span A) - Current Bar
- Senkou Span A (Leading Span A) - Future Bar
- Senkou Span B (Leading Span B) - Current Bar
- Senkou Span B (Leading Span B) - Future Bar
- Chikou Span - Current Bar
Linear Regression
- Linear Regression
- Linear Regression Angle
- Linear Regression Intercept
- Linear Regression Slope
MACD
- MACD
- MACD Signal
- MACD Histogram
Mid Points
- Mid Point
- Mid Price
Minimums and Maximums
- Minimum [OHLC]
- Average Minimum
- Minimum Volume
- Maximum [OHLC]
- Average Maximum
- Maximum Volume
Momentum
- Momentum
- Average Momentum
- Chande Momentum Oscillator
- Average Chande Momentum Oscillator
Money Flow Index
- Money Flow Index
- Average Money Flow Index
Moving Averages A-R
- Double Exponential Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Exponential Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average of [OHLC]
- MESA Adaptive Moving Average of [OHLC]
- MESA Following Adaptive Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Double Exponential Moving Average of VOLUME
- Exponential Moving Average of VOLUME
- Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average of VOLUME
- MESA Adaptive Moving Average of VOLUME
- MESA Following Adaptive Moving Average of VOLUME
Moving Averages S-Z
- Simple Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Tillson's T3 Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Triangular Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Triple Exponential Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Weighted Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Welles Wilder Moving Average of [OHLC]
- Simple Moving Average of VOLUME
- Tillson's T3 Moving Average of VOLUME
- Triangular Moving Average of VOLUME
- Triple Exponential Moving Average of VOLUME
- Weighted Moving Average of VOLUME
- Welles Wilder Moving Average of VOLUME
On Balance Volume
- On Balance Volume
- Average On Balance Volume
Parabolic SAR
- Parabolic SAR
Price Oscillators
- Absolute Price Oscillator
- Average Absolute Price Oscillator
- Percentage Price Oscillator
- Average Percentage Price Oscillator
Prices
- Average Price
- Average Average Price
- Median Price
- Average Median Price
- Typical Price
- Average Typical Price
- Weighted Close Price
- Average Weighted Close Price
Pullback
- Average Pullback Histogram
- Upwards Pullback
- Average Upwards Pullback
- Maximum Upwards Pullback
- Downwards Pullback
- Average Downwards Pullback
- Maximum Downwards Pullback
- [OHLC] Plus Average Upwards Pullback
- [OHLC] Plus Average Downwards Pullback
- [OHLC] Plus Maximum Upwards Pullback
- [OHLC] Plus Maximum Downwards Pullback
Pullback Histogram Peaks and Troughs
- Current AVPBH Trough
- Previous AVPBH Trough
- AVPBH Trough Before That
- Current AVPBH Peak
- Previous AVPBH Peak
- AVPBH Peak Before That
- AVPBH Current Pattern
- AVPBH Previous Pattern
Rate Of Change
- Rate Of Change
- Average Rate Of Change
- Rate Of Change Percentage
- Average Rate Of Change Percentage
- Rate Of Change Ratio
- Average Rate Of Change Ratio
- Rate Of Change Ratio 100-Scale
- Average Rate Of Change Ratio 100-Scale
Relative Strength Index
- Relative Strength Index
- Average Relative Strength Index
Special / Miscellaneous
- Entry Price
- Spread
- Random number between 0 and max 255
- Bar X of Move
Stochastic
- Fast Stochastic - Fast K
- Fast Stochastic - Fast D
- Slow Stochastic - Slow K
- Slow Stochastic - Slow D
Stochastic Momentum Index
- Stochastic Momentum Index
- Average Stochastic Movement Index
StochRSI
- StochRSI - Fast K
- StochRSI - Fast D
SMA Swings
- SMA of [OHLC] Swing Count
- Current SMA of [OHLC] Swing Low
- Previous SMA of [OHLC] Swing Low
- SMA of [OHLC] Swing Low Before That
- Current SMA of [OHLC] Swing High
- Previous SMA of [OHLC] Swing High
- SMA of [OHLC] Swing High Before That
- SMA of [OHLC] Swing Current Pattern
- SMA of [OHLC] Swing Previous Pattern
Time Series Forecast
- Time Series Forecast
- Average Time Series Forecast
TRIX
- TRIX of [OHLC]
- Average TRIX
True Range
- True Range
- Average True Range
- Normalized Average True Range
- Minimum True Range
- Maximum True Range
- [OHLC] Plus Average True Range
- [OHLC] Plus Maximum True Range
Ultimate Oscillator
- Ultimate Oscillator
- Average Ultimate Oscillator
Value of a bar at a particular time
- [OHLC] of a bar at a particular time - day of week level
- [OHLC] of a bar at a particular time - hour level
- [OHLC] of a bar at a particular time - minute level
Variance
- Standard Deviation
- Variance
Williams %R
- Williams %R
- Average Williams %R
Woodie's Pivot Points
- Woodie's Pivot Point
- Woodie's Pivot Points - 1st Resistance
- Woodie's Pivot Points - 2nd Resistance
- Woodie's Pivot Points - 1st Support
- Woodie's Pivot Points - 2nd Support
More On Custom Indicators
Most people should require only the standard indicators above. You can however create your own custom indicators. There is detailed help in the wiki. Assistance can also be sought in the forums, along with requests for adding Indicators to the official set. And you can use any of the provided indicators as examples to help you create your own (Detrended Price Oscillator and Pullback, especially, show a range of techniques). Export the example, then import with a different name and modify as you wish.
Trading Decision Flowchart
The trading decision flowchart employed by ATM handles most trading strategies. More complex strategies can generally also be handled by creating multiple trading systems in ATM with similar entry and/or exit Rules. Some strategies just can't be done though, such as gridding.
If you are unsure as to if your system can be handled by ATM, just ask the question in the forums. If you have to give us private information for us to answer this question, contact us directly.
The flowchart has been simplified. In each trading system you are actually given multiple ways to specify if:
- an order should be placed
- a trade should be opened at market
- the stop loss should be moved
- the take profit should be moved; or
- the trade should be exited at market
Sometimes having so many options results in conflicts, such as your trading system wanting to move the stop loss to 2 different prices, as well as also wanting to Exit At Market at the same time. The flowchart shows clearly how such situations will be handled.
The flowchart is run through separately for both the Long and Short settings. Unless your account allows hedging, you need to ensure by yourself that your trading system will never be in both a Long trade and a Short trade in the same account at the same time.
N.b. The definition of "Limit Order" varies from broker to broker. See here for our definition.
From the flowchart, you can see that ATM will only have one order or one trade open at a particular point in time. If a long trade is already open, ATM looks to manage that trade rather than opening a new order. And if it's an order that's open, ATM will modify or cancel it as necessary, rather than opening multiple orders at the same time.
However, long and short are separate things. So ATM may look to open a short order even if a long trade is already open, and vice versa.
Screenshots
These screenshots are from v2, but v3 is fairly similar (and a lot better).
I guess the main point is, you just click stuff and choose options. You don't need in-depth computer knowledge or programming skills.
Trading Systems
Price & Indicator Alerts
Command Centre
Backtesting
Price Data
Video Tutorials
Click here to view all posts tagged as video tutorials in the wiki.
Limitations
All Trading Systems Operate Separately From Each Other
That is, you can't tell one trading system to buy X units based on the profit/loss of a different trading system. You *can* tell the one trading system to shrink or grow the number of units to buy based on its own previous trades, but not based on the trades of other systems.
A Trade Is Either All In, Or All Out
There's no pyramiding, in nor out. The trade is opened, and then it's closed.
However, you can set up separate trading systems to achieve the same result. To pyramid in, the entry rules of your two systems would be slightly different, but with the same exit rules. To pyramid out, you set the entry rules the same, but the exit rules different.
It's Purely Mechanical
This is more of a strength than a weakness, but there are some situations when it is a weakness.
Firstly, there are some profitable chart patterns which humans are much better at recognising than software. The Head & Shoulders pattern is one.
Secondly, let's use the example of the MACD Histogram crossing from below zero to above. That is a purely objective, or mechanical trading rule, and this software can do this rule without any troubles.
Simply, select "MACD Histogram Above 0" as one Entry Rule. And select "MACD Histogram Below 0", with a bar offset of 1, as another Entry Rule. The bar offset of 1 means that you want the rule to have been true one bar ago.
Now when the software runs, it will check to see if the MACD Histogram was negative one bar ago, and if the MACD Histogram is currently positive. If both conditions are true, an order will be placed. Easy. So where's the limitation?
The limitation comes about if in the next bar the price did not move high enough to take up the order. The next bar finishes, and the Entry Rules are re-checked.
Now with this new current bar, was the MACD Histogram negative in the bar before? No. It was positive. It had to be for the order to be placed back then. The Entry Rules for the current bar are not satisfied, and the order will be cancelled.
A human whose trading rule says "Go long when the MACD Histogram crosses from negative to positive" would still probably look to enter into a trade, even if the cross happened 2 or 3 bars ago. This software behaves mechanically, and can only allow this exactly when the MACD Histogram was negative for the previous bar, and positive for the current one.
Where possible, place a market order rather than a limit order to alleviate this problem. If you think it's a problem.
Planned feature: When To Cancel An Order Rules, as opposed to simply cancelling an order when the Entry Rules are no longer true. This would get around the particular scenario described above, but not the "It's purely mechanical" feature/problem.
Backtesting Uses Interval Data
(As opposed to tick data). The closest ATM can get to using tick prices is if you use bars of 1-second interval. Which is pretty close. But interval data tells us only the open, high, low, and close price during that bar. There is no way to know how the price behaved during the bar, or the price at a particular time other than the very start and very end of the bar.
And the longer the timeframe - Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc - the less information we have about how the price actually behaved. Therefore, certain assumptions have to be made.
For example, an order is placed, and stop loss set. If a bar's range is wide enough so that both the order would have been taken up, and the stop loss taken out, there are 2 possible scenarios:
- Optimistic - The price first went down below the stop loss price, having no effect on us because the order had not yet been taken up. The price then moved up to take up the order. End result is that we are now in a trade with stop loss set.
- Pessimistic - The price first went up to take up the order. Then the price fell down below the stop loss price, taking us out of the trade. End result is that we are now out of the trade at a loss.
This software assumes the pessimistic case, which will most likely make the backtesting results a little out of sync with what actually happened.
The number of pessimistic trades is listed in the backtesting summary though. If there were zero pessimistic trades, then there is nothing to worry about. Similarly if there were 10 trades or more and only 1 or 2 pessimistic. But if your backtesting results show 9 or 10 pessimistic trades out of 10, then the backtesting results should not be relied upon.
A trading system which places the stop loss very close to the initial entry price will suffer this problem, as most of the bars' ranges will be wide enough to have taken up the order and taken out the stop loss. The normal candidate for this scenario is scalping techniques.
History Of Changes
The links below take you to the detail of what changed in each release. See also the current status.
20-Mar-10 - New Release: v3.0.2 - Copy, better error message, more options
14-Mar-10 - New Release: v3.0.1 - The Stabilise-ening
14-Feb-10 - New Release: v3.0.0 - The Rewrite
31-Dec-09 - New Release: v2.0.10
29-Oct-09 - New Release: v2.0.9 - Free
24-Jun-09 - New Release: v2.0.8 - FXCM Historical Prices II
17-Apr-09 - New Release: v2.0.7 - FXCM Historical Prices
05-Mar-09 - New Release: v2.0.6 - Multiple Windows
25-Feb-09 - New Release: v2.0.5 - No Longer Just USD
10-Oct-08 - New Release: v2.0.4 - 'CloseOrder'
05-Oct-08 - New Release: v2.0.3 - Chart Indicators Options
28-Sep-08 - New Release: v2.0.2 - Conversion Error
26-Sep-08 - New Release: v2.0.1 - Start of FXCM
13-Aug-08 - New Release: v2.0.0 - New Everything
13-Sep-07 - New Release: v1.0.3 - Quick Wins
04-Sep-07 - New Release: v1.0.2 - Back Into It
17-Apr-07 - New Release: v1.0.1 - The Customary Bug
15-Apr-07 - New Release: v1.0.0
11-Mar-07 - New Release: v0.9.5 - RC6
26-Feb-07 - New Release: v0.9.4 - RC5
18-Feb-07 - New Release: v0.9.3 - RC4
11-Feb-07 - New Release: v0.9.2 - RC3
06-Jan-07 - New Release: v0.9.1 - RC2
04-Jan-07 - New Release: v0.9.0 - Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
21-Nov-06 - New Release: v0.8.7 - Alerts Bugs
20-Nov-06 - New Release: v0.8.6 - SMS
08-Nov-06 - New Release: v0.8.5 - Big Little Bug
07-Nov-06 - New Release: v0.8.4 - More File Formats
14-Oct-06 - New Release: v0.8.3 - Market Orders
07-Oct-06 - New Release: v0.8.2 - Candlesticks
22-Sep-06 - New Release: v0.8.1 - Holidays
01-Sep-06 - New Release: v0.8.0 - Alerts, Charts
07-Aug-06 - New Release: v0.7.5 - Emergency Release
04-Aug-06 - New Release: v0.7.4 - More Indicators
13-Jul-06 - New Release: v0.7.3 - General Bug Fixes
29-Jun-06 - New Release: v0.7.2 - Charts, Time-based Rules
22-Jun-06 - New Release: v0.7.1 - Auto-Trading
09-Jun-06 - New Release: v0.7.0 - Oanda API
21-May-06 - New Release: v0.6.7 - Interval Data Creation
16-May-06 - New Release: v0.6.6 - File Loader
10-Mar-06 - New Release: v0.6.5
10-Mar-06 - New Release: v0.6.4
08-Mar-06 - New Release: v0.6.3
02-Mar-06 - New Release: v0.6.2
01-Mar-06 - New Release: v0.6.1
26-Feb-06 - New Release: v0.6.0 - Initial Release To Public
Current status
If an issue is not listed here, we do not know about it.
The forum is where 95% of all support queries should be asked. Only if you have to tell us private information to explain the error should you contact us directly.
There is also a feature request part of the forum. The most popular requests will be done first. To add your vote, reply to the existing forum post and type "+1" or similar. If you have a new request then start a new forum post.
Check the history of changes to see if we fixed a bug you found in an older version.
Special Announcements
None.
Last updated March 20th, 2010.
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| # axis settings | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| # colour settings | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| # other settings | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Known problems | #409 - line studies don't show when loading a chart #410 - need to re-click a chart object after moving #411 - linear chart scale and values between 0 and 1 #412 - magnify level on chart resets a bit when add indicator #413 - Indicators list on Chart window doesn't include Volume panel |
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| Transactions | Add | View | Edit | Copy | Delete | Bulk Delete | Search | Import | Export | Test Connx. |
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| Trades | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # trade history | Not tested | N/A | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Orders | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # order history | Not tested | N/A | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Transactions | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
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| Automate | Add | View | Edit | Copy | Delete | Bulk Delete | Search | Import | Export | Test Connx. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backtest config entries | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| Backtest results | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| Indicator-based Alerts | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| # alerting rules | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # holidays | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # specific times | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Trading Systems | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| # trading rules | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # trading values | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # holidays | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # specific times | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
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| Transactions | Add | View | Edit | Copy | Delete | Bulk Delete | Search | Import | Export | Test Connx. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trades | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # trade history | Not tested | N/A | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Orders | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
| # order history | Not tested | N/A | N/A | Not tested | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Transactions | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Known problems | ||||||||||
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| Other | Add | View | Edit | Copy | Delete | Bulk Delete | Search | Import | Export | Test Connx. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messages | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Activity | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Indicator Test | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| New File Wizard | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Version Check | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Helper Wizard | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| About Window | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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| Tasks | Add | Cancel | Delete | Search | Process | Start | Stop | Set next run time | Set frequency | Change settings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backtesting task | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| File load task | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Price bar creation task | ||||||||||
| # normal price bars | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| # synthetic price bars | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Alerting task | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Auto-trading task | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||
| Scheduled processes (in general) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Everything's fine email | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Everything's fine SMS | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Forex factory calendar | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Database maintenance | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Known problems | #399 - creation of synthetic price bars does not work #401 - each rule of a trading system should be able to check different price data #402 - database maintenance does not work #403 - auto-trading and alerting do not work |
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| Brokers | FXCM | MB Trading | Interactive Brokers | OpenTick | Oanda | Gain Capital | DukasCopy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download account info | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Download transactions | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Download price data | |||||||
| # streaming ticks | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| # recurring ticks | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| # streaming price bars | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| # recurring price bars | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| # special price bars | Not tested | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| # backfill | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| # historical | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Import prices from their text files | N/A | ||||||
| Price bar creation | |||||||
| Place limit order | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Modify limit order | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Cancel limit order | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Place market order | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Modify trade's stop loss | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Modify trade's take profit | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Close trade | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
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